Bitcoin issue: Transaction dropped from the mempool

Why it happens

• The fee rate was under the node's minimum relay fee (default 1 sat/vB) and every node rejected the broadcast.
• An RBF replacement with a higher fee evicted this transaction — the new one is spending the same inputs.
• The wallet broadcast to a node that was pruning or desynchronised, and no other node ever saw it.
• It sat in the mempool for more than 2 weeks without confirming (mempool expiry).

How to fix it

1. Open the wallet and re-broadcast the transaction — if the inputs are still unspent it can be sent again.
2. If the inputs are spent, look up the spending transaction: the funds did move, just under a different txid.
3. Re-send with a fee at or above the current market rate; do not reuse the old low fee.
4. If the wallet says 'already spent', your transaction was replaced — accept the replacement as the real one.

What it looks like in the wallet or explorer

txid not found on mempool.space or blockstream.info — inputs may have been re-spent by an RBF replacement